Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we've never met and never will.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.

The rich control our politics to a huge extend. In return they get tax cuts and deregulation. It's been and is an amazing ride for the rich.

They did not understand that by liberalizing imports, the government was also promoting exports.

world is not a zero-sum struggle in which one country's gain is another's loss.

sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty

Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.

reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

And the heart has become so tired, and the longing so vast.

Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.

No easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, someone else has solved them.

I don't consider myself ever joining. But I have affiliations, for sure.

If we can know the beauty God is forming in us, we can bear the pain He allows in our lives.

Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

Graved inside of it, "Italy".

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.